Understanding Research

Today, everyone has access internet when they would like to know anything about health and mostly trust all information on the internet or that shared on Line or Facebook application. It’s difficult to understand why people easily trust such information. If the information is based on science, if there is scientific research to support it, then the information could be trusted. The person who publishes the information on the internet may have a different intention altogether.

Some aim to sell product while some aim to create news or for employment purpose. Thus, the reliability and benefits of each information are different. To put things in perspective so that you can use benefits of scientific research results it is important for you to understand four main aspects:

Level of Evidence

Level of Evidence

A ranking system used to describe the strength of the results measured in a clinical trial or research study. When searching for evidence-based information, one should select the highest level of evidence possible--systematic reviews or meta-analyses.

Quality of Evidence

Quality of Evidence

A quality research depends on the quality of its scientific evidence. Apart from the scientific evidence, the information consumer should know how to do understand research and what are different from the levels of evidence

Commercial Tricks

Commercial Tricks

Most of the scientific research are probability statistics that the number can be presented in many ways. If the reader cannot understand the meaning of presentation, he will be tricked that the drug has better statistics than the actual does.